Welcome to the Bailey Elementary PTA website!

This site is your one stop for all information related to our Bailey PTA’s events, volunteer opportunities, budget…everything PTA. Take a few minutes to
check out the links to the left especially what the Bailey PTA provides and ways to get involved.

We try our best to keep this site current, and it is updated frequently. Be sure to bookmark our page and come back often!

If you have comments regarding PTA matters, feel free to email any of the board members via the Contact Information
link.

If you have any comments or suggestions relating to this website, please email the Bailey PTA
webmaster.

Bailey PTA Upcoming Events, News & Link Highlights:

Fall Fundraiser: Orders due 10/3; Pick-Up 10/25

Last week, we kicked off our first fundraiser of the year (Cherrydale/Chip Shoppe). Packets were
sent home with orders due by 10/3. You can order online or via the form. Please consider selling some items! Product delivery date is 10/25, so please mark your calendars as
items must be picked up on the afternoon/evening of 10/25. We do not have the space to store items overnight (especially refrigerator/freezer items).

Information about Bailey Fundraising: The Bailey PTA raises important funds for the
school, to be used for our students and classrooms. We have a variety of ways to fund raise. Here are our fundraising options for 2017-2018 – you don’t have to participate in all
of them, but I’d really encourage every family to be sure to participate in at least some of them since the funds are important for our school and help pay for the approved PTA expenses for
classroom and building uses:

Fall
Fundraiser:Cherrydale/Chip Shoppe Fundraiser (wrapping paper, gifts, food
items). We’ve done this fundraiser for a number of years and it’s quite successful. (makes up about 20% of our income budget). Last year, the average raised per participant in the
Fall Fundraiser was about $50 for our school.

Spring
Fundraiser:Apex Fun Run (makes up about 35% of our income budget).
Last year, the average raised per participant in the Spring Fundraiser was also about $50

Smaller fundraisers through the
year:

Book Fairs

Community Events (Wendy’s Night, Culver’s
Night, etc, where a portion of the sales go directly to the Bailey PTA)

Direct Donations:If you’d prefer to not participate in the other fundraiser or just want to
supplement your fundraising efforts, you are always welcome to give a direct donation to the Bailey PTA. That way, 100% of your dollars will go directly to our Bailey PTA income budget
and 100% will be used on our approved budgeted expenses.

Book Fair Coming - Volunteers Needed

Volunteering to help with the book fair is a great way to stay involved with Bailey Elementary PTA while supporting literacy in our community.

We need volunteers to help set-up and break-down the fair (October 10 & 18) as well as volunteers to work shifts (shifts available during school and evenings for conferences) October
11-17.

Check out the sign-up sheet to see if you're available to help! SIGN-UP

Thank you!

2017-2018 PTA Important Information - emailed 8/21

Dear Bailey Parents,

Happy Summer! I thought it was a good time to send out some important information
from the PTA, before things get too crazy with all the Back-to-School hype/fall-with-so-many-things-to-do craziness begins (or maybe it's already started!).

My youngest child will be starting 5th grade this year, so my time at Bailey is
limited. I really see this upcoming school year as an important TRANSITION year, so I can transition/recruit for the positions that keep PTA running.

If you are new to Bailey – or haven’t been very involved with the PTA – or are looking
for a way to step up in your child’s educational experience, I’d highly encourage you to get involved with the PTA. There are many ways to get involved, and we have many large gaps that we need to fill ASAP.

Bailey Student Directory

The Bailey Elementary PTA compiles and puts out a student directory for families to be able to use as a resource to contact
other Bailey families (preschool to Grade 5). This is especially helpful when planning playdates and birthday parties! The directory will be available free of charge via a pdf
document sent to families who provide their contact information on this site. Only
those families who provide their information on this site will be sent the directory. Please don't complete the survey until you know your
child/children's teachers.

Please complete this survey bySeptember 30, 2017. You should see an electronic copy
of the entire directory sometime early to mid October. If you have any problems with this survey, please contact Anne Miller at baileyelementarypta@hotmail.com.

2017-2018 Volunteer Opportunities

To sign up to be part of our "pool" of volunteers, click here: SIGN UP

When volunteer opportunities arise, we'll email our pool of volunteers to see who can help.

Here is our list of specific volunteers we're looking for right now (but please, also, consider signing up for our "pool" with the link
above - those will be the volunteers I email when we have other needs through the year to see if you're interested/available): SPECIFIC NEEDS

Want to be part of our Bailey PTA email group? We'll email you re: things going on with the PTA, opportunities to help, etc.

We won't share your email with anyone else and emails will be sent "BCC" so others don't see your email address.

Name and email is all we need - this survey will take you less than one minute!

Community Events

Wendy's and Culvers are the participating restaurants for this year. These are restaurants who give back to Bailey on specific nights. Check out details here: LINK

Amazon Smile

Do you shop on Amazon? Did you know you could get all the same great benefits Amazon offers and raise money for our school?

Every time you shop on Amazon (via the Amazon Smile site), Amazon Smile will give 0.5% of your purchase back to our school…same products, same prices and same shopping options. Amazon Prime
members are eligible too!

This link is a direct link to benefit Bailey (which shows up as “PTA Minnesota Congress”, but the link has our Tax ID number so we know it's for Bailey.

Bailey Elementary PTA

PTA Membership

Please check out our "Donations & Membership" page for how to join the Bailey PTA. We look forward to having you be a
part of our Bailey PTA community!

For more details and other upcoming events, please see our Events Calendar page.

2017-2018 Meetings:

PTA meetings are on the following Tuesday nights in the Bailey media center at 5:00 p.m. Bailey teachers and parents are welcome to attend - you don't need to be
a member to attend - but you do need to be a member to vote.